RESEARCH
Who Does The Earned Income Tax Credit Benefit?
Working Paper—The popular EITC program is credited with encouraging employment and reducing poverty. But a SCEPA working paper suggests it may also reduce wages for low-education workers, including older workers who do not receive EITC benefits at the same rate as younger workers.
This paper tests the conventional story that since the birth of the discipline of sociology, the economic orientation of the discipline has peaked twice: 1890-1920 and sometime after 1985.
The essential insight advanced in this paper is that the claim that inflation can impair growth makes most sense in the context of a monetary production economy.
A methodological inconsistency arises from presenting macroeconomic arguments formally and microeconomic arguments verbally.
This paper shows how Keynes-Kalecki Structuralist models might benefit from agent-based microfoundations without sacrificing traditional macroeconomic themes.
The question addressed in this paper is: can monetary policy succeed in stabilizing the economy even when the policy model on which it is predicated is mis-specified?
This paper explains the Joan Robinson's abandonment of discussing exploitation in The Accumulation of Capital.
The framing of the redevelopment of Manhattan's Hudson Yards as a self-financed project hides the public trade-offs.
This working paper builds on Farjoun and Machover's probabilistic approach to understand the distribution of firm level profit rates.
